Tuesday, May 18, 2010

I never Metamorphosis I didn't like

"On the plus side: I no longer have to pretend I know what Kafkaesque means."

Here's a "clever" cartoon, though cleverly it's about not being clever. Clever, eh? It's really a cartoon about bluffing it, and I think the bug is probably me. I must admit, I've never read any Franz Kafka but I have read Kafka for Beginners, as it's illustrated by cartoonist Robert Crumb. A good starting point.

I saw this in New Humanist, Royston - great gag! I liked the other one too.

I've read bits and pieces of Kafka - Metamorphosis, Inside The Penal Colony - when I was at school and university. Worth a look, but I've never moved on to the longer novels (some of which I think were never finished and end abruptly). That Crumb book is great though - when I think of Kafka it's his drawings I'm thinking of.

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